with Descriptions of Nt w S^< ou s of Fossil I ' ' 





in 1S58, the collections made by the United Stal 

 Boundary Commission were placed in my hands for examina- 

 tion. These included fossil plants from the coal beds 

 Nanaimo, Vancouver's Island, which were associated with 

 Inoeeramus, Pholadomya, etc., before described by Mr. 

 and which plainly indicated their Cretaceous age. These pla 

 were described by the writer in In;:; (Boston Journal of 

 Natural History, vol. 7, No. 4c). Previous to that time the fossil 

 plants collected by Dr. Evans, United States <<< ologist for 

 Territory of Oregon, were committed to Mr. 1.. Lesqn< reux, 

 the well-known Botanist, who published descriptions of them 

 in the American Journal of Science, of these the following 

 were from Nanaimo, viz. : 



Pojpulus rhomboidea, I. 3qx. 



Quercus Benzoin, 



Quercus mvltinervis, : 



Quercus platinervis, 



Salix Islandicus, 



Cinnamomuin //> ■ rii, 



Fie us sp. 



with which are enumerated, but not described in full, 

 Platanus with the same nervation as Quercusplati 

 Chamaerop>s agreeing with Sabal Lamanonis, Berg 

 in the European Miocene, a very fine ScUisburia, very \ ■■ i 

 in the outline of its leaves, and named Salisburi > p < J ;, 

 also a small piece of a tern referable to the genua / 

 a Sequoia probably identical with S. ft mp rvi) 



The Bellingham Bay plants described by Mr. I 

 consisted of species of Smilax, Quercus^ /' 

 Persoonia, Diospyros, and Acer. By Mr. I 

 plant-bearing strata of Bellingham Hay and V 

 were regarded as of the Bame age, and from 

 of the species they contain to those found in the M 

 Europe, he prononnced them to 

 xxvii., p. 362). In a subs gn< ol ■ 



